Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - Tập 106 Số 32 - Trang 13410-13414 - 2009
Michael E. Alfaro1, Francesco Santini1, Chad D. Brock2, Hugo Alamillo2, Alex Dornburg3, Daniel L. Rabosky4,5, Giorgio Carnevale6, Luke J. Harmon7
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095;
2School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164;
3Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520
4Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850;
5Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850;; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and
6Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra and Museo di Storia Naturale e del Territorio, Università di Pisa, Pisa, 56100 Italy;
7Department of Biology, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83843; and

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The uneven distribution of species richness is a fundamental and unexplained pattern of vertebrate biodiversity. Although species richness in groups like mammals, birds, or teleost fishes is often attributed to accelerated cladogenesis, we lack a quantitative conceptual framework for identifying and comparing the exceptional changes of tempo in vertebrate evolutionary history. We develop MEDUSA, a stepwise approach based upon the Akaike information criterion for detecting multiple shifts in birth and death rates on an incompletely resolved phylogeny. We apply MEDUSA incompletely to a diversity tree summarizing both evolutionary relationships and species richness of 44 major clades of jawed vertebrates. We identify 9 major changes in the tempo of gnathostome diversification; the most significant of these lies at the base of a clade that includes most of the coral-reef associated fishes as well as cichlids and perches. Rate increases also underlie several well recognized tetrapod radiations, including most modern birds, lizards and snakes, ostariophysan fishes, and most eutherian mammals. In addition, we find that large sections of the vertebrate tree exhibit nearly equal rates of origination and extinction, providing some of the first evidence from molecular data for the importance of faunal turnover in shaping biodiversity. Together, these results reveal living vertebrate biodiversity to be the product of volatile turnover punctuated by 6 accelerations responsible for >85% of all species as well as 3 slowdowns that have produced “living fossils.” In addition, by revealing the timing of the exceptional pulses of vertebrate diversification as well as the clades that experience them, our diversity tree provides a framework for evaluating particular causal hypotheses of vertebrate radiations.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Tập 106 Số 32

13410-13414

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